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Quotes by Artist
"Well, I like way downtown near the Battery. I lived down there at this time and for, I guess, the following well, this is where I moved to uptown and I've been here for four years and this is 1965."
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"We finally found out the technique of separating and getting information about where every train would be at any moment. Of course, I went over budget many times, because - as you go along - some things improved, and you get better ideas."
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"I wrote five issues of that and got the sack. Actually, they paid me for eight, but they changed their minds about the direction and threw three issues out the window."
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"You learn just by trying and experimenting. By the time I was 14, I had my own comic strip in the Kansas City paper."
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"I think what I'm trying to do is create moments of recognition. To try to detonate some kind of feeling or understanding of lived experience."
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"And then we moved to New Jersey and I went to the Art Students League."
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"No art is any good unless you can feel how it's put together. By and large it's the eye, the hand and if it's any good, you feel the body. Most of the best stuff seems to be a complete gesture, the totality of the artist's body; you can really lean on it."
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"I like the idea of the artist going out in the world, creating a dialogue."
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"I am just trying to find a way to make pictures."
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"They're very nationalistic the French - or they used to be. Very insular. Pretty arrogant."
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"Keep good company - that is, go to the Louvre."
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"I am very much afraid of definitions, and yet one is almost forced to make them. One must take care, too, not to be inhibited by them."
Care,
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"Yes, you know sometimes, we started out thinking out how strange our painting was next to normal painting, which was anything expressionist. You forget that this has been thirty five years now and people don't look at it as if it were some kind of oddity."
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"I try to deal with the complexities of power and social life, but as far as the visual presentation goes I purposely avoid a high degree of difficulty."
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"But I was very, very unhappy because my mother was very charming and generous, but to me, very dominating."
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"Comics are really my life blood in a lot of respects."
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"Many, many of my paintings have come from the first chapter of Moby Dick."
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"It's all in how you arrange the thing... the careful balance of the design is the motion."
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"Every art expression is rooted fundamentally in the personality and temperament of the artist."
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"Language thus becomes monumental because of the mutations of advertising."
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"Alan is a great guy, a terrific guy. We haven't worked together since then, and he's always working with different artists. I think he sees different dimensions he can see from different guys."
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"Let's talk of a system that transforms all the social organisms into a work of art, in which the entire process of work is included... something in which the principle of production and consumption takes on a form of quality. It's a Gigantic project."
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"Now, my knowledge of photography was terribly limited."
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"But we discovered that, although I liked publishing, the commercial side meant nothing at all to me."
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"There are a couple of things in there if we're constraining this discussion to horror here."
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"When I go to farms or little towns, I am always surprised at the discontent I find. And New York, too often, has looked across the sea toward Europe. And all of us who turn our eyes away from what we have are missing life."
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"Other times you can get showy for three minutes, and that's OK with certain films. But that isn't right with an Ang Lee movie, you have to fit right in. You have to understand Ang, respect him and be part of the team and not be in charge of it - he is in charge of it."
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"We have it, we're lucky enough that we've created a show where it's not about... a family, or a kid, it's about a town."
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"Real style is not having a program - it's how one behaves in a crisis."
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